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Will Ye No Come Back Again?: the melody (soprano)

The melody of Will Ye No Come Back Again?, sung by the soprano, in F, from C4 to F5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Carries the tune, most often on C, then F and A, up to its top F only on the "Will" that starts each chorus's second line, and down to middle C on "awa;" and "twa," in verse 1, on the opening "Ye" and on "men," and "glen," in verse 2, and on every "be" in "Better lo'ed ye canna be".

Range
C4 to F5
Key
F
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  1. 01 · Your part

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  3. 03 · Sing it

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About Will Ye No Come Back Again?

Words: Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766 to 1845)

Tune: as printed under Finlay Dun's name (1795 to 1853)

Will Ye No Come Back Again? is Lady Nairne's farewell to Bonnie Prince Charlie, "now awa; Safely owre the friendly main": gone over the sea. Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, kept her authorship secret, even writing as "Mrs. Bogan, of Bogan"; only after she died did her sister agree, in January 1846, to "letting it be known that she wrote them". At Gask, where she grew up, a small table reads "Charles, Prince of Wales, breakfasted at this table in the low Drawing Room at Gask, September 11th, 1745." Our tune is read from Gems of Scottish Song, in the Boston printing catalogued as 1883, in F, where it is headed "Finlay Dun."; the page doesn't say whether he wrote it or arranged it. Verse 2's words are from the book's 1894 printing, and the four parts are our own. This is two verses, each with the chorus, for 2 to 4 singers.

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